Our Wee Little Walker

Now that little Peter has been walking for a couple of months it's already hard to remember when he wasn't.  Good thing for video evidence. 



Besides the ones in the video, how many other songs can you name that have the word "walk" in them?

11: Twice as awesome as being #1

Miriam turns 11 on Monday.  To celebrate her and her amazing talents, here is an edited version of her performance at the school talent show.  Lots of kids can play the piano.  But Miriam plays the piano blindfolded and then (at about 45 seconds into the video) while hula hooping!  She says that blindfolded was more difficult, but the audience was certainly more impressed with the hula hooping. 

Peter's Progress

Tammy put together this video of Peter's first year of life.  (minus clips already a part of many other family events)  It's already crazy to see how scrawny he was at 6 months.  He is a delight to have in our family.

Thanksgiving in UT

Another video from Henry!  We spent Thanksgiving in UT with all of Alvin's family.  Peter has four Van Orden cousins his same age, so there was a baby Olympics and much more fun.  This video is not at all reflective of all the things we did, but it does serve to trigger memories of a whole delightful week.

Mini-Van Orden Vacations

In this fifth and final post of the day (which tops our post total for 2015), we have two road trips.  The first video features our stops at a ropes course and a fair in Virgina on the 4th of July our way to a family reunion.  The second is a trip we took to Palmyra and Niagara Falls.



We were a little nervous about putting a Christian rock song over footage from Palmyra, but when the other choice was TLC's Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls, we decided it worked.

Happy Birthday...Everyone

If you look below, you'll see that Henry got his own birthday video.  Not so for everyone else that blew out candles in 2015.  This efficient video shows Eliza and her party with the Williams, Clarissa and her trip to the zoo, Miriam and ice skating, and Tammy and the Folk Festival.



Note: There's no video of Alvin's birthday as Tammy wasn't there to document it.  (Peter was born but didn't have a birthday celebration in 2015.)

Part of Our World

Thanks to Tammy's talents Halloween is always a fun time around here.  The kids enjoyed playing up the Little Mermaid theme.  It doesn't seem like that long ago until you see how far Peter has come in his mobility.